Product suitability at the core of latest license withdrawal and debarment
18 June 2020
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) announced 4 June 2020 that it had withdrawn Ecsponent Financial Services’ (EFS) license for breaches of financial sector laws, most notably its failure to conduct suitability testing before marketing or selling investments. Eight days later the authority confirmed that the key individuals on the EFS license would be debarred for a period of two years. These are the latest developments in a multi-year saga that saw investors, many among them pensioners, lend almost R2 billion to the now-struggling, Ecsponent Limited.